Shell Programming and Scripting

@samshaw:

Perhaps you should open your own thread?

For a start try this:

Code:

HOSTS=( $(sed -n 's/^<hostAddress>\([^<]*\).*/\1/p' xfile) )

It will write the results of the sed command into an array HOSTS.

Code:

echo ${HOSTS[1]} etc.

Will give you the values.

Sed is best learned by example. There are many pages with sed one liners.
This one here does the following:

-n only print if asked to print a line
's/ substitute
^<host every line starting with host
\([^<]*\) every character except a "<" and save what you have found in "\1"
.* the rest of the line
/\1/ substitute by what we have just save in \1
p' print this line.

The command does two tasks at a time: a) it finds all lines starting with
host..., b) it extracts the value between the tags.

HTH Chris

Is this works for ksh ? ... Im not getting any output